Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards
Job Title: Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards
Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services
Band: 8b
We are recruiting for a Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
The lead pharmacist will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to virtual ward patients under the care of Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to promote the optimised, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.
Main duties of the job
You will be a core member of the Trust's respected and expanding SMART team who oversee virtual wards, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training, and medicines optimisation support to the team.
You will build relationships and work with internal stakeholders and external partners to support the delivery of high-quality pharmaceutical care to patients.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open, and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
Job responsibilities
Lead the provision of specialist clinical pharmaceutical services to the staff (medical, nursing, allied health professionals and managers) and patients of the virtual ward service in order to achieve high quality, safe, cost-effective, and evidence-based prescribing and use of medicines and ensure a safe transition of care across settings.
Provide pharmaceutical professional support, legal and ethical guidance and advice to all clinical and non-clinical staff within the service to raise and maintain standards of practice that meet or exceed current standards.
Attend and contribute to regular multidisciplinary team meetings (face to face or virtual clinics) where patients are reviewed.
Prescribe medication for individual patients within the agreed scope of practice and competence, and according to Medway NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures. Although independent prescribing is a desired qualification, candidates without this qualification will be considered.
Liaise and work in partnership with external health professionals and stakeholders across the integrated care system (ICS) in the management of virtual ward patients (e.g. GPs, community and primary care network pharmacists, social care providers).
Develop and deliver training and education to ensure staff are delivering high quality and evidence-based care when using medicines.
Develop and maintain policies and standard operating procedures for the service that are evidence-based and comply with legal and current guidance thus providing tools to maintain the safe and secure handling of medicines.
Lead on the governance of medicines for the service including the audit of policies and the management of medicines incidents in order to maintain and continually improve standards of patient care.
Manage the collection of data to respond to pharmacy/medicine Key Performance Indicators relating to virtual wards and write regular reports as part of a program of audit/service evaluation.
Support the transfer of care of patients discharged from the virtual ward, ensuring a high standard of information provision concerning medicines to relevant professionals and organisations and onward referral to appropriate services to support patients to live independently and manage their medicines.
Facilitate and undertake research to inform practice developments and underpin delivery of an effective, evidence-based pharmacy service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
* Higher degree/Diploma in clinical pharmacy
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
Knowledge
* Expertise on legal and ethical pharmaceutical issues related to medicines
* Clinical knowledge of medicines in specialist area.
* Experience and knowledge of the Supply, Distribution, Storage and Administration of Pharmaceuticals in Community and Primary Care settings.
* Specialist knowledge of Medicines Act, Home Office Controlled Drugs regulations, Data Protection Act
Experience
* Experience and knowledge of hospital practice including dispensing and range of clinical experience.
* Understanding of practical medicines management issues in the virtual ward setting
* Experience in education and training of healthcare professionals, social care staff, and patient groups
Skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills to communicate highly complex information where there may be barriers to understanding, and be able to motivate, challenge and negotiate within the team and with others.
* Computer literate in word processing skills, spreadsheet skills, PowerPoint, e-mail, and internet systems. There is a regular commitment to use word processing skills to produce substantial policy documents.
* The skill to train other pharmacy staff and healthcare professionals in specific tasks related to the service provided to community hospitals/adult services.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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